They enthrall young and old alike with their exhibits, oddities and eccentricities. But what happens to museums when people stop coming? Explore 10 of the world’s most compelling, creepy and downright weird abandoned museums here.

Water damage is the scourge of many old buildings. But on the flip side, the reflections captured in their flooded floors make for some amazing and ephemeral urbex photography. Click the pic above and find out for yourself!

From its windowsill vantage point inside an abandoned manor house, this forlorn, long-stuffed fox keeps an eye on the decaying room, which still contains elegant furniture and an old fashioned tricycle.

Visible on Google Earth, the anonymous grassy area between the Midland Hotel and the seafront, which had been home to the long-abandoned Arena Funfair before its demolition in 2008, marks another lost Morecambe attraction.

It may be rather dirty rainwater, but water of any kind is a vaguely welcome sight in a place that was built for swimming, paddling and general enjoyment, long abandoned with seemingly no role to play in our modern world.

The Industrial Revolution transformed the Welsh slate mining industry into one of the most prestigious and largest of its kind in the world. But today, hundreds of mines, quarries and their narrow gauge railways lie abandoned.